Heaven goes by favour.
If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
~ Mark Twain
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.
Heaven has accorded this to us in the
uncritical canine attachment.
~ George Eliot
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon
is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
~ Milan Kundera
He cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog.
~ John Northbrooke
Well...There's a nice set of poetic expressions! Do we mean it? or do we just like the sound of our own voice?!!